Marsilio Ficino

The Florentine priest and physician who translated the entire Platonic corpus and then all of Plotinus into Latin for the Medici, printing the Enneads in 1492. Cosimo de' Medici had him set Plato aside first to translate the Hermetic books, on the belief they were older — a mistake corrected in 1614, and the reason ⁂ Wing B exists.

The Renaissance re-opening of the channel, and the point where Neoplatonism and Hermeticism enter Europe together, in one man's handwriting. Everything on the descendants' bench eventually drinks here.